“Life is not a fairytale. If you want something you have to fight for it.”

“What you did is not nearly as important as what you are going to do.”

“When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.”

“Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.”

“You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.”

“Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.”

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”